thornc, I don't believe you have done anything wrong here, on the contrary your contributions are welcome.
Many ideas and strategies have evolved over the years at this site and others as well. The discussions have been open and candid and have yielded some unique software opportunities not seen elsewhere. Unfortunately, there have been occasions where ideas have been exploited, by creating software, and credit falsely assumed by the author. While it may be impossible to say who the originator is/was since no one copyrighted the idea at the time, indeed, the ideas may have been developed long before, it raised awareness about the openness of the discussions - in my mind anyway.
At this site, we have had a tremendous increase in membership, due, in part, I believe, to the posting of links to this site at other popular lotto boards. I have noticed a few of the new member's profiles as software developers, software analysts, in fact, you are a good example of this.
While I am not opposed to software people coming to the site and making a contribution, in fact, we have an ongoing project here with Andrew's WinHunter development, which is currently an opensource, free product, I am a little concerned about ideas, whose genesis was this site, ending up in software being sold without the appropriate credit.
Most of the stuff here, hot/cold, hit/skip, last digit, last number, root sum, odd/even, decades, repeaters, consecutives etc etc has been done - I'm not worried about that. But, there are other strategies that I have not seen elsewhere. Perhaps I'm ignorant.
thornc, I have seen some of your discussions elsewhere and know that you are a good player interested in lotto strategies.
I look forward to your contributions here.

